blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.8.1 on Friday, February 07, 2014 between 6:00am and 8:00am.

blog.ryerson.ca users and visitors to your sites may experience a brief outage during this time.

This upgrade includes some feature changes, security fixes and performance updates.
Details can be found here.

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

What’s New in “Parker”?

• a new look and feel to the admin panel and Dashboard
• a new default theme, Twenty Fourteen (see it in action!)

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.7.1 on Friday, December 06, 2013 between 7:00am and 8:00am.

blog.ryerson.ca users and visitors to your sites may experience a brief outage during this time.

This is upgrade includes some feature changes, security fixes and performance updates.
Details can be found here.

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

What’s New in “Basie”?

• mostly background changes, such as automatic updates for minor releases
• no real interface changes

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.6 on Friday, August 23, 2013 between 7:00am and 8:00am.

This is upgrade includes some feature changes, security fixes and performance updates. Details can be found here.

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

What’s New in “Green”?

Here are some of the highlights of WordPress 3.6. There are many many more updates that may not be as apparent.

• New Twenty Thirteen theme
• Post locking and improved autosave of posts and pages
• Improved Menu editor

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.4.2 on Friday, September 28, 2012 between 7:00am and 8:00am.

This is upgrade includes mostly security fixes and performance updates. Details can be found here.

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.4.1 on Friday, June 29, 2012 between 7:00am and 8:00am.

This is upgrade includes some feature changes, security fixes and performance updates. Details can be found here.

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

What’s New in “Green”?

Twitter Embed

Simply copy the permanent link to any tweet (or tweet conversation) and paste in the HTML source of a WordPress post or page. When published, the tweet(s) will be embedded, adding some visual flair.

We're upgrading http://t.co/bOF0mLaE tomorrow! We're going "Green"! http://t.co/vK968ut1 #blogging #Wordpress #upgrade

— DMP Ryerson (@DMPRyerson) June 28, 2012

Theme Preview

Click on the ‘Customize’ link for the theme enabled in your blog, and you will be brought to a screen that allows you to preview the WordPress-based theme changes (such as title, tagline, link colours, background image, header image, etc). Your changes will only be published to your blog when you click “Save & Publish”

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.3.2 on Friday, April 27, 2012 between 7:00am and 8:00am.

This is primarily a security update, with no visible feature changes. Details can be found here.

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.3.1 on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 between 8:00am and 10:00am.

WordPress 3.3 “Sonny” details here: http://wordpress.org/news/2011/12/sonny/

Many additions and changes are introduced with this update, some of which include:

• Drag-and-drop functionality added to the file uploader
• Improved admin toolbar
• Improved Dashboard interface, including helpful pointer tips
• Improved touch support in the Dashboard, for use on iPad and other tablet devices

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.2.1 on Thursday, August 04 between 10:00am and 12:00pm.

WordPress 3.2 “Gershwin” details here: http://wordpress.org/news/2011/07/gershwin/

Many additions and changes are introduced with this update, some of which include:

• A new default theme, Twenty Eleven , that features a clean interface and takes advantage of many new features available in WordPress 3.2
• A cleaner and faster admin dashboard interface

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

An update to our message from earlier this week…

blog.ryerson.ca will now be upgraded to WordPress 3.1.2 on Friday, May 6 between 6:00 and 8:00am, instead of the original date Friday, April 29.

This upgrade will implement changes from releases 3.1.1 and 3.1.2.

• WordPress 3.1.1  details
• WordPress 3.1.2  details

This is a maintenance and security update and does not include any major changes.

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.